I just want to give a big thank you to my dear friend who gave me the ideas for this chapter. Remember this is not my native language so I'm sorry for any english mistakes.


It was 6 am now and the alarm started ringing waking up Andy. Andy turned off the alarm, rubbed her hands through her sleepy eyes then slowly opened them and started stretching. At first, she was still sleepy but as soon as she started to gain conscience, she remembered all that had happened yesterday and started crying again. Michelle was already up and when she was passing through Andy's room, she heard her cousin sobbing so she decided to get in. When she got in, she saw Andy hugging her pillow and crying. She already knew why her cousin was crying so she just went to her and opened her arms so Andy could hug her. Andy hugged Michelle and after a few minutes she managed to calm herself down. 'Come on. Today is a new day so get up, take a shower and get dressed while I make us breakfast.' Michelle said energetically while smiling trying to cheer up Andy. 'Thank you.' Andy said with a still cracked voice. After that Michelle left the room and Andy got up and went to the bathroom to take a shower.

At the Station 23 it was now 8 am. Andy entered in the beanery and saw Theo making a protein smoothie. He didn't even hear her coming in because of the noise coming from the blender. Andy looked exhausted. Her eyes were swollen and red like she hadn't slept for days. 'Hey. Good morning.' Andy said with a forced smile. Theo replied to the good morning and turned the blender off cause his smoothie was already done. 'Take you for covering up for me.' Andy said firmly looking at the ground trying not to show him what a mess she was. 'Hey sure no problem...' Theo said while turning around to look at Andy, when he saw Andy, he knew she wasn't ok, she looked like she had been to hell and back, after taking a minute to look at her he continued 'Are you sure you are ok to be back at work?'. 'Yeah I'm sure. Why?' Andy replied trying to hide that she was suffering with a forced smile. 'Cause you look like hell. And don't tell that you are ok cause everyone can see that you aren't. You look like you went to hell and back. And just by looking at you I can see you haven't slept much.' Theo said worried about his friend's mental and physical health. Before Andy could say anything, the alarm sounded, and everyone rushed into the barn to get in the vehicles.

As soon as they arrived at the scene, they saw a big structure fire in an appartement, and everyone started to get ready to go in. Andy was acting captain, so she started to partner everyone and distributing the tasks to the team 'Barnes and Duval you're on evac! Maddox and Ruiz you're on evac too! The rest are on the aid car! Let's go people move!'. While the evac teams were running towards the entrance of the building a 30 year old male came out running to the firefighters with a child in his arms and yelling for them to hurry up cause there was still many people inside. 'You got to hurry up! There're still many people inside! I got to go back to help them!' The guy said while putting the child on the ground. Andy ran towards him to try to calm him down and get some information about the people on the building. Andy approached the 30 year old male and putted her hand on his shoulder trying to calm him down. 'Hey sir, I'm lieutenant Andrea Herrera. I need you to calm down and tell me how many people are still inside of that building please.' Andy said with a firm voice. 'There are still ten people inside. Six elders and four children.' The man said heavily breathing between the words. 'Ok sir we will take care of that. Now you need to be examed because you can be suffering from smoke inhalation.' Andy said forwarding him to the aid car. After that she grabbed her radio and called for backup.

Minutes later 19 showed up and Becket went to talk to Andy to know the fire situation while the team was getting ready to get into the building. After that Becket came back to the team and started giving orders 'Sullivan and Gibson evac! Bishop and Montgomery evac! Hughes and Warren aid car! The rest will help the people with minor injuries.'. Andy approached team 19 and told them to turn the radios on channel 3 and then picked up the radio and started to ask her team for updates 'RUIZ. MADDOX. What is your status?'. 'We're getting out now with two of the kids.' Ruiz answered while holding one of the kids in his arms and Maddox holding the other one. 'Copy. . What is your status?' Andy asked. 'Getting out with one of the kids. 'Duval answered while Barnes was holding the other kid on his arms. 19 was now getting all the necessary equipment and Andy was close to the 19 engine waiting for her team to get out of the building. Robert could see Andy's exhaustion. She looked like she didn't slept for days and that made Robert worry even more about her. 'Are you ok?' Robert asked with worry in his eyes while putting the equipment. 'I'm fine and this isn't the time or place to talk about this.' Andy answered coldly turning her back around and walking towards the entrance. After some minutes 23 walked out of the building with the 3 kids and Andy ran towards them giving orders. 'I need oxygen in here!' She yelled while the people on the aid cars from 19 and 23 grabbed the oxygen bottles and masks and ran towards them. By this time 19 was already ready to go in so they ran to the entrance. While they passed through 23 Robert and Andy looked at each other and for some minutes it was like time had frozen, just like what happened in the Los Angeles wildfire. Andy saw him getting into the building on fire and she felt fear running down her spine. All that she could do was worrying about him. She loved him, he was the love of her life, her best friend, her other half and seeing him run into a burning building was like seeing him walk to his dead but she knew she had to focused on her job so she breath in and out trying to calm her nerves and then continued giving orders. On the burning building Robert kept thinking about Andy, he knew she wasn't ok, she was exhausted, and he knew she was suffering because he was too. Seeing her like that was heartbreaking for him, her eyes were swollen and red like she hadn't slept for days and have been crying most of them. Robert was pushed from his thoughts when he and Jack where walking into an appartement and suddenly they heard a kid's voice. They followed the voice and find the kid hiding under the dining table. He was so scared that it took Robert and Jack some convincing to get him out of there. While that was happening 23 was already back in the building again. Ruiz and Maddox rescued four of the elders and got out while Duval and Barnes found the other two elders left and got out of the building too. When the kid started to finally walk towards Jack and Robert, he fell on Robert's arms. He was not breathing so Robert had to put his mask on the boy and started doing CPR. Andy was starting to get worried cause everyone besides Robert and Jack had already got out of the building, so she called them on the radio. 'GIBSON. SULLIVAN. What's your status?' Andy asked worried. 'Still on the building. Sullivan is doing CPR on the boy because he stopped breathing.' Jack said while looking at Robert giving everything, he had to keep that kid alive. Right after this Theo says for Andy to look at the roof and she sees a lot of dark smoke coming of the roof, so she called them again on the radio. 'MAYDAY! GIBSON. SULLIVAN. You got to get out of there right now! The integrity of the building is compromised! Get out of there now!' Andy yelled on the radio getting even more worried about them then she was before. 'I'm not leaving until this kid starts breathing again!' Robert yelled back while he was still doing CPR on the boy. 'Get out of there that's an order!' Andy yelled again but this time no one answered. Minutes after, everyone heard a loud noise and part of the building where Robert and Jack were collapsed. Everyone was in shock thinking about the two firefighters and child that were still inside. Andy's heart starts racing because she sees that Robert didn't get out. She's scared but she knows she has to focus cause she's acting captain, so she kept repeating to her 'He's fine. He's fine. He's fine...'.


What do you think is going to happen next? Did something happen to Jack and Robert? Did they died?

I hope you all liked it. Let me know what you are thinking about the story until now.

See you all next chapter byeeeee